As we imagine entering the world again, come read the Austen novel in which, Virginia Woolf said, “we also feel that is trying to do something that she has never yet attempted.” In her creation, Anne Elliot, a careful reader and rereader, Austen offers a friend and companion to her own readers, the ones she imagined, us.Īndré Wenzel, research librarian at the University of Chicago Libraries, has put together a resource for the APS Together book club on Jane Austen that includes links to databases, articles, and other information related to Persuasion. Anne Elliot, living quietly in the country, has lost people she loves, and a chance at love, but as she moves once again into a broader world-a world of friendship, imagination, and of the wide seas toward the end of the Napoleonic Wars-life begins for her for a second time. Persuasion was published in 1817, six months after Jane Austens death, and is the last novel she completed in full. Jane Austen (1775–1817) finished this novel during her own last illness and it has a quality of reflection all its own. In Persuasion, mourning and renewal are not separate.
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